Thank you card with a little leaf on handmade paper, hand written greeting and a gold tie

This card also reused a card front - one of mine from years ago that I gave away and came back with a wonderful message inside.  It is going out again!!!

It features a little square of handmade paper, a little pressed leaf and a little gold thread tie.  The greeting below was done by hand with a gold gel pen and traced on a light table using a printed font.  Have not done that in quite a while though I really do like the look of it.  

Therese
 

All Occasion Card featuring an embossed leaf, layered circles, ribbon and hand decorated background

I am making up some cards for my stash to be used as needed so they will all be without greetings.  

This one started with a dark green card and I chose a hand decorated background (sanding and wax resist) from my stash.  I found the leaf in my stash as well (Magenta) and watercoloured it to coordinate.  I ran my pattern tracing wheel on all four sides to add some texture.  I wanted to add a bit of something else so I had my little container of circle die cut/punchies and thought I would see if I could make some of them work.  I layered two halfs for the top and bottom and added a pewter eyelet.  I glued them to the back of my leaf and then attached this large element to my card front using 3D foam tape.  I then threaded green ribbon through the eyelets and glued the ends to the back of my decorative paper.  I glued this larger element to my card front.  The silver embossing is subtle but quite effective when you move the card a bit.  

This leaf element was created in the process of making handmade paper by placing a piece of white tissue paper which has been stamped and embossed right onto the wet sheet of paper and then couching as usual.  The process embeds the tissue paper into the handmade paper.  Works really well!!  Therese